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Chapter 67 The Massacre of the Coppa Italia Semifinals
Although Inter Milan's Champions League attrition war is over, the Roma team is chasing after them in the league and does not give Inter Milan a chance to breathe.And Inter Milan's schedule is relatively more dangerous.

On April 4th, the first round of the Coppa Italia semi-final with Lazio will be staged. The intensive schedule makes the Inter Milan team miserable. At this moment, they can only grit their teeth and persist. If they make mistakes, the goal of the Triple Crown will be for naught.

In the league, Jingxuan has assisted 17 times and has a great hope of winning the Serie A assists leader this season.

And Ibrahimovic scored 22 league goals and is very hopeful of being crowned the Serie A Golden Boot.

For Jingxuan, there is a good thing and a bad thing, the bad thing is that Xia Ziyin still cannot be contacted;
The good thing is that his overall system ability value has increased by one percentage point and has already tied with Ibrahimovic.

In the early morning of April 2008, 4, BJ time, Inter Milan ushered in their first league opponent after the Champions League - Fiorentina.

In the first round of this season, Inter Milan defeated their opponents 2:0 in the away game. Back to home against Fiorentina, Inter Milan is still full of confidence.

Due to the fatigue of the main force and the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia in the middle of the week, Inter Milan used many substitute players in this game.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic wants to pursue the Golden Boot, so he took the initiative to ask to play in this game.

The Inter Milan substitutes who had been holding back for a long time played well. Finally, with the goals of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the teenager Pele, Inter Milan won the Fiorentina team 2:0 at home.

Since the Roma team won Udinese the day before, the points gap with Inter Milan was close to 1 point. After Inter Milan won this game, the points gap between the two teams returned to 4 points.

In the early morning of April 2008, 4, BJ time, Inter Milan ushered in a challenge from Lazio at home.

Before this game, there were many voices supporting Inter Milan to give up the Coppa Italia and focus on the league and the Champions League.

But Mancini seems to have the Italian Cup in his pocket, and he will not give up if he doesn't take it.

In fact, his contract requires that he must win the league this season and at least enter the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The second task has been completed, but it is not safe to win the league championship, so many people suggested that it is very wise for Mancini to give up the Coppa Italia, but Mancini is very stubborn, he wants to win the first triple crown in the history of Serie A.

In this game, Inter Milan's main force was out. In order to eliminate the suspense at home, Inter Milan arranged a striker combination of Jingxuan and Ibrahimovic.

In the midfield, Stankovic served as the attacking midfielder, and Cambiasso, Zanetti and Maniche partnered in the three midfielders.

Chivu replaced Materazzi, who has been injured recently, as the starting central defender, and his partner is still Burdisso.

In the position of full-back, Maicon and compatriot Maxwell started at the same time, and in the position of goalkeeper, veteran Toldo, who had been out of battle for a long time, started.

For Lazio, the goalkeeper is No. 32 veteran Balotta, and the four defenders are Zauri, Sivilla, Kribari and Radu in turn.

In midfield, Dabo, Ledesma and Behrami started at the same time.

On the front line, Mauri, Pandev and Rocky formed the attacking trident.

In the 3rd minute of the opening, Rocky turned around and shot in the Inter penalty area and was blocked by Burdisso, missing Lazio's rare scoring opportunity in this field.

In the 7th minute of the game, Jingxuan received Stankovic through pass, shook off Zauri's defense, and passed the ball to Ibrahimovic.

Inter Milan leads 1:0.

In the 15th minute of the game, Cambiasso instigated a counterattack. Stankovic shot from 25 meters in front of the goal.

In the 17th minute of the game, Rocky's shot was blocked by Chivu from the bottom line. This was Lazio's second shot in this field.

In the 25th minute of the game, Zanetti ran for 50 meters long-distance, played a one-two with Jingxuan, broke into the penalty area and passed the ball to Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The latter pushed the ball into the far corner of the goal.

In the 28th minute of the game, Ledesma took a free kick. Mauri faced goalkeeper Toldo alone but missed the ball!Lazio missed a good chance to score.

In the 30th minute of the game, Ledesma's left-footed shot from 28 meters in front of the goal was easily confiscated by Toldo.

Then the Inter Milan goalkeeper threw the ball and launched a counterattack.
Jingxuan successfully reversed offside after receiving Maxwell's oblique ball. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, he easily lobbed the ball into the far corner of the goal. Inter Milan took a 3-0 lead.

In the 38th minute of the game, Adu and Jingxuan hit the latter's brow bone during the scramble for the ball. Jingxuan immediately bled and had to go off the field to receive treatment.

Lazio, who was fighting with one more man, took the opportunity to launch a crazy attack on Inter Milan at this moment.

In the 41st minute of the game, Behrami shot from the edge of the penalty area and was caught by Toldo. Two minutes later, Mauri cooperated with Zauri, but his close-range shot was blocked by Toldo with his feet!
After being bandaged by the team doctor, Jingxuan returned to the court. It was almost the end of the first half, and neither side had a good chance.With a whistle, the first half ended.

During the intermission, neither side made substitutions.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Lazio stormed Inter Milan's goal. Mauri made a cross, and Radu passed and shot from the left, which was resolved by Toldo.

In the 52nd minute of the game, Zanetti fouled Ledesma and was given a yellow card. He will miss the second round.

In the 56th minute of the game, Jingxuan passed the ball, and Stankovic stopped the ball in the chest and missed it.

In the 58th minute of the game, Ibrahimovic volleyed from 27 meters in front of the goal and hit the dead corner of the goal. Inter Milan led Lazio 4-0. Ibrahimovic was in excellent form and scored a hat-trick.

It is a pity that he will not be able to play in the first leg of the Champions League against Chelsea.

Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Mancini replaced Jingxuan who was wrapped in thick bandages with Suazo, and the teenager Pele replaced Stankovic.

The Lazio team also made substitution adjustments, and Mutarelli replaced Behrami.

In the 65th minute of the game, Lazio made a counterattack. Rocchi broke through Cambiasso in the middle and passed into the penalty area. Pandev passed the ball back to him.

In the 77th minute of the game, Ledesma took a free kick and Mauri headed in, but it was a pity that he was offside first.

Inter then counterattacked and Ibrahimovic chested Cambiasso, who poked into the box and fired into the near corner of the goal.

Inter Milan took a 5:0 lead!Then Cambiasso was replaced by Solari.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Chivu took a free kick, Ibrahimovic headed back to the other side, and Burdisso hit the crossbar with a header!

Lazio replaced Dabo with Manfredini. After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Inter Milan finally slaughtered Lazio in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final and seized the opportunity.

(End of this chapter)